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This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.

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[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, hold on...

Can it be self-hosted?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like it from the readme!

[–] UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Amazing, will try this out on the Pi then.

[–] elvith@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago

I was wondering the same, but I didn't find any information on how it builds the search index. I guess it takes quite a while until it's usable. Also, it might be very dependent on the speed if the internet connection and also the available storage.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

In the github page linked in this post:

We recommend everyone to use the hosted version at stract.com, but you can also follow the steps outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md to setup the engine locally.